THE INFLUENCE OF MILAN ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOMBARD KOINÉ IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY: THE LETTERS OF ELISABETTA OF PAVIA.
The main tendency characterizing the development of language in Lombardy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is the formation of a koiné. The extent to which Milan influenced the Lombard koiné is the subject of ongoing debate. On the one hand, scholars suggest that Milan provided a centralizin...
| Publicado en: | Quaderni d'italianistica Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 131 - 152 |
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Iter Canada
2017
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